
Riveted by the world of upper-class British Catholics that Waugh brings to life in the novel, Potok realized for the first time that fiction had the power "to create worlds out of words on paper." To learn how to write, Potok carefully studied the novels of such writers as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain. In an interview Potok said, "I prayed in a little shtiebel, and my mother is a descendant of a great Hasidic dynasty and my father was a Hasid, so I come from that world."Īfter reading Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited when he was a teenager, Potok decided to become a writer. OL1812094W Page_number_confidence 95.43 Pages 374 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210118184930 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 633 Scandate 20210116075037 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780449219843 Tts_version 4.Chaim Potok, born Herman Harold Potok, February 17, 1929, in Brooklyn, NY, was the son of Polish immigrants who had strong ties to Hasidism and was reared in an Orthodox Jewish home.


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